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firm in the multi-media entertainment field with emphasis in domestic
and international entertainment, media, and intellectual property matters.
Firm represents U.S. and multi-national record companies, music publishers,
recording artists, producers, songwriters and senior entertainment industry
executives. Responsible for the negotiation of agreements relating to
the sale of several music companies, including independent record companies
and music publishers. Firm's activities include serving as consultant
to a major international music publishing company, record companies with
regard to operations, management, personnel, strategies and future business
models as well as acting as counsel to technology/internet companies which
have applications and solutions in areas of recorded music, film and television.
Firm advises corporate clients in structuring of acquisitions, analyzing
data and financing in complex transactions.

Prior
to establishing Law Offices of Marvin Katz, Mr. Katz was a Senior/Managing
Partner in Mayer, Katz, Leibowitz & Roberts, an internationally recognized
law firm with emphasis in the entertainment and music industries representing
a number of internationally acclaimed recording artists, producers and
songwriters as well as corporate clients, including the Warner Music Group,
the Elektra Entertainment Group, Atlantic Recording Corporation and Warner
Music International.

Admitted
to Practice: New York State Bar, U.S. Southern District of New York and
United States Supreme Court. Member of New York State Bar Association,
Charter and Planning Committee member of the NARAS Entertainment Law Initiative,
Guest lecturer and panelist in the Entertainment Arts and Sports Law Society
Speaking Program of Brooklyn Law School "Entertainment and the Law", the
New York Law Journal seminar series "Negotiating Contracts in the Entertainment
Industry" and the Practicing Law Institute seminars "Counseling Clients
in the Entertainment Industry".